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Cave 33. Fresco of flying figures, c. 850 A.D.

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Authors

Barrett, Douglas E. & Basil Gray
Photographer: Arthur Llewellyn Basham

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Abstract

Description

In the Indra Sabha, the most impressive of 5 Jain shrines, one of a series of wall paintings, mostly ceiling panels of flying figures, tautly executed and showing the style of the earliest layer in the western porch of the Kailasanatha Temple at a slightly later stage.

Keywords

Deccan-- Western Cave Temples-- Ellora-- Ellora - Cave temples 21-33, architecture, murals, book scan

Citation

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/176525

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Basham Photographs

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Image

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Basham Collection

Date created

1963

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This item is provided for research purposes. Contact the Australian National University Archives at butlin.archives@anu.edu.au for permission to use.

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